Rebecca Horn

born 1944

In Tate St Ives

Modern Conversations: Modern Bodies: Barbara Hepworth

Biography

Rebecca Horn (born 24 March 1944, Michelstadt, Hesse) is a German visual artist, who is best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. She directed the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990). Horn presently lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

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Artworks

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Rebecca Horn Concert for Anarchy

1990
Rebecca Horn Unicorn

1970–2
Rebecca Horn Pencil Mask

1972
Rebecca Horn Finger Gloves

1972
Rebecca Horn Arm Extensions

1968
Rebecca Horn Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water

1974–5
Rebecca Horn Mechanical Body Fan

1973–4
Rebecca Horn In the Triangle

1973–4

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Film and audio

Look Closer

Body Extensions and Isolation

Joey from Tate Collective Producers shares her perspective on Rebecca Horn's work In The Triangle

Features

Tate Etc

Extending bodies

Lisa Le Feuvre

How artists have explored and utilised prosthetic technologies both to satirise humanity and help in the quest to expand the …
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Rebecca Horn born 1944Moveable Shoulder Extensions 1971

Acatia Finbow

As part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art, Acatia Finbow explores Rebecca Horn's Moveable Shoulder Extensions 1971
Tate Papers

Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances

David Lomas

Involuntary Drawing
Tate Papers

Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art

Lydia Beerkens

Lydia Beerkens. Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art; Tate Papers, no.8
Tate Papers

Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation

Helen Charman and Michaela Ross

Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in …